Jazz Articles about Leonard Patton

About Leonard Patton

Album Review

Peter Sprague, the San Diego-based guitarist who has gigged with everyone from Chick Corea to Hubert Laws, Charles McPherson to Dianne Reeves, seems to be accelerating his recording output of late. He is averaging more than two albums a year as leader the past half-decade, plus guest appearances on numerous others. And all of this is on top of his work running his own studio and small record label, SBE ("Striving to Break Even") plus a busy performance schedule.

Album Review

LP And The Vinyl: Heard And Seen

Read "Heard And Seen" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
May 11, 2020

Vocalist Leonard Patton can be heard and seen often in the San Diego County, California area, making his joyful noise. Often, he appears in the company of the Danny Green Trio, one of the jazz world's premier piano trios. The live shows are exhilarating affairs, with Patton--covering everything from Stevie Wonder to Michael Jackson to David Bowie to the Great American Songbook--displaying a seemingly effortless ability to put a song across with a bursting-with-life elan. On Heard and ...